Oct 7, 2024 12:00 PM | Register here  The Center for Social Concerns hopes you will join it each month for the Virtues & Vocations lunchtime webinar series, Conversations on Character & the Common Good. There is always time for audience questions. Helene D. Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., began serving as the 11th president of Spelman College on July 1, 2022. A pediatrician and public health physician with expertise in economic development, humanitarian, and health issues, she previously worked in leadership roles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and was the president and CEO of the international humanitarian organization, CARE and the Chicago Community Trust. We will have a conversation about her work at Spelman and how higher education can promote democracy and the common good. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops, an annual conference, and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity, and moral purpose through our publications.

Oct 8, 2024 6:00 PM | RSVP here >>> Are you a Notre Dame undergraduate with questions related to conflict, peace, and justice? If so, join the Kroc Institute for the annual peace studies fall student mixer and dinner! Undergraduates from all majors are invited to meet our current students and learn about how peace studies prepares them to create positive change in our communities and our world. You'll also have the opportunity to talk with faculty and staff about ways to engage with the Undergraduate Program in Peace Studies and the resources available to students through the Kroc Institute. Come meet us and become part of our extensive network of changemakers! RSVP here >>> Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Oct 8, 2024 7:00 PM | This week's readings invite us to examine the role of friendship in living well, with particular attention to our often self-serving inclinations or fears of exclusion. This co-curriculum event is designed to offer a nuanced and specified discussion on one form of friendship, romantic friendship. Join Christine Emba and Moreau Peer Leaders in a conversation about romantic friendship. Christine Emba is a writer, reporter, and former columnist and member of the Editorial Board for The Washington Post. In her book Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (2022), Emba argues how consent is a good ethical floor, but a terrible ceiling. She spells out the cultural, historical, and psychological forces that have warped our idea of sex. Reaching back to the wisdom of thinkers like Thomas Aquinas and Andrea Dworkin, and drawing from sociological studies, interviews with college students, and poignant examples from her own life, Emba calls for a more humane philosophy, one that starts with consent but accounts for the very real emotional, mental, social, and political implications of sex—even, she argues, if it means saying no to certain sexual practices or challenging societal expectations altogether."...if all you want is to be in the know, your pleasure will be short-lived... you were not looking for virtue or kindness or loyalty or humour or learning or wit or any of the things that can be really enjoyed. You merely wanted to be 'in.' And that is a pleasure that cannot last." - C. S. Lewis, “The Inner Ring” (1944)Guidelines This event will showcase an interview with Moreau Peer Leaders and Christine Emba as they imagine what friendship in the context of romantic relationships looks like and could look like here at Notre Dame. Register and attend the event with Moreau Peer Leaders and Christine Emba. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome, but registration is limited to 120. After attending the event, record at least five quotes or observations in your commonplace book and reflect upon them. Sign up here After signing up, click below to add this event to your Google Calendar.   Contact whittington@nd.edu for more information.  Originally published at moreaufirstyear.nd.edu.

Oct 9, 2024 12:30 PM | Jinying Chen, Visiting ScholarJinying Chen, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs and executive director of the Center for Indian Studies at Shanghai International Studies University, will deliver the lecture "From RCEP to IPEF: the Domestic Politics of Indian Foreign Economy Policy." Chen's main research areas are party politics, Indian government and politics, and comparative studies of China-India development. She joins the University of Notre Dame for the fall 2024 semester as a visiting scholar at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Sponsored by the South Asia Group at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs. In support of the Liu Institute’s growing commitment to sustainability, we will no longer be offering drinks at our public lectures and panels. We encourage audience members to bring their own water bottles or to drink from nearby water fountains. Thank you for your understanding. Lunch Provided-Registration Required Originally published at asia.nd.edu.